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The Greenburst Crystal Tear can also be mixed in the Flask of Wondrous Physick with something more aggressive. The heightened rate of stamina recovery is great for dodging and blocking, but the Stonebarb Cracked Tear is arguably one of the best ways to enhance critical stri


Games like Dark Souls also included alternate consumables to manage things like health, stamina, and other stats aside from the primary potion(s). In Elden Ring , players get access to the Flask of Wondrous Physick as a third mainstay potion type with a variety of effects. However, this potion is a bit of a technicality since the Flask itself has no effect until players mix Crystal Tear key items into


Old Knight Istvan is a summonable NPC for the Demi-Human duo boss fight in the Coastal Cave. While not much is known about Istvan in Elden Ring , the information available to players is he is one of the oldest Tarnished around. As helpful as he is, some players may recognize his name because he is one of the Volcano Manor’s targ


NPC summons is a common feature of Soulsborne games. Many times, these NPCs can be encountered in certain locations and will only move when the player has progressed to a new area. Other times, these NPCs will tell the player they are looking for something or someone, and the player can assist the NPCs. Moving these NPCs along and helping them may be essential to their questline, which many players may want to complete. There is also a chance that players can accidentally kill an Elden Ring N


The opening cinematic of Elden Ring further identifies Godfrey/Hoarah Loux as " Chieftain of the Badlands ," while the item descriptions for the Champion's Set armor pieces expound on how " the brave warriors of the badlands shun excess adornment " __ in emulation of their chieftain. In-game, the character of Godfrey never discusses his life in the Badlands (which hopefully won't be Elden Ring's DLC setting ), but the NPC Nepheli Loux , a distant relation of Godfrey and axe-wielding warrior, shares a lot about her life in dialogue with the player. In the Village of the Albinaurics, Nepheli recounts a grim slaughter she witnessed as a child, describing it as " The oppression of the weak. Murder and pillage unchecked. A waking nightmare, made by men. " __ Throughout her quest line, she refers to the " wind " as a divine force of nature and the " storm " as a force of cleansing justice. These words and others suggest that the Badlands are a harsh, desolate place, wind-swept like Stormveil and full of marauders who use their strength to take from the w


When creating character builds during a campaign, players of Elden Ring who don't want to rely on Glintstone Sorceries or Incantations still have access to a wide variety of ranged weapons drawn from both history and fantasy. There are short recurved bows designed to be used on horseback, long-bows and Great Bows made for ranged sniping, crossbows that can be fired one-handed, and even two primitive firearms – the archaic-looking Jar Cannon and the One-Eyed Shield with its flame-spiting mouth mor


Queen Marika the Eternal, founder and destroyer of the Golden Order, shattered the Elden Ring using a "s tone hammer made in the lands of the Numen, outside the Lands Between. " __ The armor set of the Black Knife Assassins, cutthroats who murdered Godwyn the Golden and catalyzed the Shattering, describes the assassins as " all women, and rumored to be Numen who had close ties with Marika herself. " Aside from hinting at Marika's active role in the murder of her own son, these weapon/armor descriptions imply that Marika herself was one of the Numen, and first came to the Lands Between from the country (or world) where the Numen dwelled. There are no clues in the story or endings of **Elden Ring ** __ about what the Lands of the Numen look like or what culture the Numen possess. If Queen Marika and her Black Knife cohorts are typical of their people, though, the Numen seem to be very ambitious and willing to catastrophically meddle in the affairs of both humans and g


A massive, abhorrent spider with two heads, The Duke's Dear Freja comes across as a twisted version of the Armored Spider from Demon's Souls . Capable of launching lasers from its mouths and summoning a horde of arachnid minions, it's easily among the most grotesque in the Dark Souls seri


Much like the worlds of its predecessors in Demon's Souls and Dark Souls , the primary setting of the Elden Ring action RPG, the Lands Between, is heavily flavored after the cultures of pre-modern Europe. Many early-game and underrated Elden Ring weapons – rapiers, maces, scimitars, pikes, longbows, crossbows, zweihanders – are deliberately modeled after the real-life designs and proportions of medieval/Renaissance weaponry and act as grounded contrasts to the larger, magical, and downright fantastical weapons introduced in Elden Ring 's late g


The open world of **Elden Ring ** is large - larger than the worlds of every other FromSoftware RPG to date. As players steer their Tarnished characters across the continent known as the Lands Between, they can visit beautiful forests, mist-veiled lakes, golden plateaus, ice-swept mountaintops, underground cities, and hell-scapes of fungal rot. The Lands Between, however, is just one continent upon a larger planet. This begs the question; what exactly are the Lands Between... betw